Bill Text: IL HB1156 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning drug products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-13 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1156 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1156-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1156 Introduced 2/11/2009, by Rep. Daniel J. Burke SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
215 ILCS 125/2-3.1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1405.1
Amends the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning drug products.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Health Maintenance Organization Act is
amended by changing Section 2-3.1 as follows:
(215 ILCS 125/2-3.1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1405.1)
Sec. 2-3.1. (a) No health maintenance organization shall
cause to be dispensed any drug other than that that prescribed
by a physician. Nothing herein shall prohibit drug product
selection under Section 3.14 of the "Illinois Food, Drug and
Cosmetic Act", approved June 29, 1967, as amended, and in
accordance with the requirements of Section 25 of the "Pharmacy
Practice Act", approved September 24, 1987, as amended.
(b) No health maintenance organization shall include in any
contract with any physician providing for health care services
any provision requiring such physician to prescribe any
particular drug product to any enrollee unless the enrollee is
a hospital in-patient where such drug product may be permitted
pursuant to written guidelines or procedures previously
established by a pharmaceutical or therapeutics committee of a
hospital, approved by the medical staff of such hospital and
specifically approved, in writing, by the prescribing
physician for his or her patients in such hospital, and unless

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it is compounded, dispensed or sold by a pharmacy located in a
hospital, as defined in Section 3 of the Hospital Licensing Act
or a hospital organized under "An Act in relation to the
founding and operation of the University of Illinois Hospital
and the conduct of University of Illinois health care
programs", approved July 3, 1931, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 95-689, eff. 10-29-07.)